For homebrews, we will also employ a blind tasting. Each of us, or a third party, will serve the homebrew along side a commercial beer brewed in the same style. This way we won’t be giving ourselves too much credit for our own creations.

When we review a homebrew, we will be using the Beer Judge Certification Forms. Now, neither of us is a certified beer judge, but we feel their form is an excellent guide to evaluating a beer and its characteristics. You can see and download their form from the competition page of their website (the form is a PDF under Beer Scoresheet), but a quick overview of the points is below. Read more »